654 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Comparative prices of articles purchased by farmers in 1910, 1909, and 1899 — Continued. 



Articles. 



Copperas, pound cents. 



Lline, barrel dollars. 



Paris green, pound cents. 



Sulphur pound do... 



^\ itch-hazel, pint bottle do... 



H;iskets, one-half bushel, each do... 



Milk cans, 10-gallou, each dollars. 



Milk pails, each cents. 



Paints, ready ini.xed gallon dollars. 



Paint brushes, e:vch cents. 



Kope, hemp, pound do... 



Sacks, grain, each do... 



Scales, small, each dollars. 



Twine, binder, 100 pounds do... 



Average, all articles. 



1910 



10.1 



1.30 



30.5 



8.5 



25.3 



52.6 



2.70 



37.9 



1.88 

 78.2 

 13.0 

 19.0 

 1.04 

 9.40 



1909 



10. 



1. 

 30. 



8. 

 25. 

 51. 



2. 

 37. 



1. 

 76. 

 13. 

 18. 



1. 



9. 



1899 



10.0 



1.12 

 27.0 



8.5 

 25.0 

 39.0 



2.56 

 34.4 



1.29 

 67.9 

 12.4 

 14.0 

 .96 



9.00 



Percent- 

 age 1910 

 to 1909. 



101.0 

 101.0 

 100.0 

 !()0.0 

 101.3 

 101.'. 7 

 100.9 

 100.4 

 110.3 

 102. 5 



95.5 

 105.7 

 100.0 



96.5 



Percent- 

 age 1909 

 to 1899. 



101.58 



100.0 

 115.2 

 113.0 

 100.0 

 100.0 

 131.3 

 104.7 

 109.6 

 125.6 

 112.4 

 109.7 

 128. 6 

 108.3 

 107.5 



112.1 



Quantities purchasable by value of 1 acre. 



